A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 31, 1998
Pa. Cooperatives Co
(Continued from Pago A 1)
trip he took over the weekend to
Poland reminded him of the impor
tance of cooperatives to all of the
people of Pennsylvania.
Leadership development is of
major concern to the PCC, and
Hayes said that “leadership" and
“cooperation” arc two key words
to any community of people seek
ing to better their collective lives.
“I made the trip to Poland and
could see, once again standing on
the lands of Poland, how lucky we
are (in Pennsylvania) to have
cooperatives," Hayes said.
He compared the current state of
agricultural production and com
mon technology to that of the
United States SO to 75 years ago.
"We know that much of what
United State’s agriculture is now is
because people banded together,"
he said, adding that by forming
cooperatives it has been proven
that it is possible to achieve for all
what none could achieve alone for
himself.
Hayes said that, for the Polish
people, “Russians turned
’cooperative’ into a ditty word.
“Polish people arc very adverse
to embark ... in cooperatives," he
said, explaining that the Polish
repulsion to the word “coopera
tive" is because of the way the con
cept was twisted into domination,
withholding of individual educa
tion, growth and experience and
abuse under the former Soviet
Union rule by the Communist
Party.
Poland was one of the first coun
tries under the control of the for
mer Soviet Union to seek free
markets and elections.
Despite the Polish experience
with “cooperatives" under Com
munism, Hayes said there is no
doubt that rural America, especial
ly Pennsylvania, would not have
been able to achieve the high stan
dard of living.
He referred to rural services pro
vided through cooperative ven
tures, such as with electricity, agri
cultural services and commodities,
fuel, food, etc.
In order to be successful, coop
eration depends upon strong, deve
loped leadership, Hayes said.
Hayes said that Pennsylvania’s
cooperative’s have been wise to
have for so long fostered and nur
tured leadership as part of its
purpose.
He said the future of Pennsylva
nia will rely on leadciship deve
lopment performed now. Poland
needs to develop its leaders, he
said.
“As that country moves ahead,
it’s going to need leaders,” he said.
He said that the past weekend rein
forced the observation of how
strong leadership and cooperation
have made America strong, that
healthy and encouraged leadership
development has allowed local
communities to be strong, and
states to be strong.
“A free society is no stronger
than ‘we,’ the people,” he said.
In another presentation, Dennis
Hatfield, senior leadership consul
tant for the Gallup Organization,
discussed his organization’s philo
sophy toward leadership.
According to Hatfield, while 97
percent of the Gallup Organiza
tion’s public recognition is
because of the polls often referred
to in the media and other informa
tion sources, that work only repre
sents about 2 percent of the income
for the organization.
Much of what Gallup does is
serve as a consultant for busines-
ses, he said.
Hatfield said the company's
philosophy is, “Evety individual is
uniquely and profoundly
talented."
In brief, Hatfield said that
humans around the world and
through time have recognized and
associated certain talents in
individuals such as musical,
story telling or some other mathe
matical or scientific ability as
setting those people apart from the
rest as uniquely talented.
In essence, he said that people in
general tend to think not of more
common talents, or even outstand
ing talents in common tasks, as
equal in importance to entertaining
or comprehensive talents.
That, he said, undermines self
confidence and leadership
development
He said that people tend to dwell
on what they lack and not on their
strengths. Good leadership is built
by building on an individual’s
strengths and talents and develop
ing his individual style of
leadership.
He said it’s a waste of time to try
to imitate somebody else, because
that individual is unique and their
approach their own custom
fitted suit won’t provide a
comfortable fit for anyone else.
The Gallup Organization can
measure talent, Hatfield said,
through a series of questions
designed to determine areas of
talent in individuals.
He said that as a business con
sultant, Gallup seeks not to change
people or “fix” them, but to help
people find there way to creating a
productive and satisfying working
arrangement.
He explained that productive
work is closely related to the level
of satisfaction of the workers, and
that money is only a long-term
satisficr for those people who are
not willing to become involved
with their work or own talents, but
are looking for a source of money
to support other interests and
needs.
Good leadership (and essential
ly good employee development) is
based on wokitalent, he said is o
He said that evciy thing that Gal
lup does is research based, and he
offered a formula the organization
developed to measure productivity
per person:
Talent X (Rl+E+R2) - P
Where R 1 - relationship of
individual with other
workers.
E - Expectations
given the worker.
R 2 - Recognitions
and rewards for work.
P - Productivity per
person.
The purpose of the talk and for
mula seemed to all support that
happy and productive workers are
those who believe their leaders, are
trained properly and matched well
to the job, know what is expected,
and are appropriately rewarded.
Deputy Secretary Russell Red
ding discussed the progress of a
steering committee organized to
look into the possible development
of a Pennsylvania Rural Coopera
tive Development Center.
Essentially, the work of the
committee has been to develop the
concept for a central information
center for aiding and nurturing the
development of rural cooperatives
by acting as a source of where to go
to get things done, instead of how
to get things done.
Redding said there are already
plenty of how-to guides to
cooperative development, but
there is no guide to where to go to
get the services or to find out about
and obtain all the proper legal
From the left, N. Alan Bair preaents the PCC Cooperative Educator Award to Gerald
Phillips, while Donald Schriver receives the Hal F. Doran Cooperative Business Edu
cation Award from David Blandford.
compliances, such as permits, etc.
The center would serve as a
medium for networking for
cooperatives.
“Pennsylvania currently has a
valuable cote of organizations and
resources working on cooperative
development and rural develop
ment initiatives ” Redding said.
“However, they arc currently
working with little coordination,
resulting in missed opportunities.
“It’s the Steering Committee's
belief Pennsylvania could beneGt
from the development and coordi
nation of a Cooperative Develop
ment Center,” he said.
The mission of the center would
be to “... develop and coordinate a
network of private, public and edu
cational entities to improve the
delivery of cooperative develop
ment assistance,” he said.
As the committee has been
progressing, it met with Pennsyl
vania’s federal representative del
egation and discussed federal sup
port. Redding said that Sen. Arlen
Spector, show served on the
Senate Ag Appropriations Com
mittee, was very supportive and
influential in getting language
passed that directs the USDA to
consider Pennsylvania’s applica
tion for a grant to help with deve
loping the center.
In other business, three awards
were presented during the awards
luncheon.
Hal F. Doran Cooperative Busi
ness Education Award was prc-
BRATTLEBORO, Vt.
-Holstein Association USA will
release its new genetic evalua
tion in November.
The High Ranking Sire
Report will be available on Nov.
9, when it will be placed on the
Association's website, www.hol
steinusa.com. The Top 100
International Bull list will also
be available that day.
A new feature on the website,
Sires Summaries Online will be
available Nov. 9. Viewers can
look up a bull's type proof on
line. A bull's evaluation will
appear as it is printed in the
Sire Summaries or Sire
Summaries Supplement imme
diafplv as thev are available.
sented to Donald H. Schriver,
executive vice president with
Dairy Farmers of America. He is
responsible for international
mnnekting, government and public
affairs, communications, corpo
rate relations and new business
development
He works with the National
Milk Producers Federation, SECO
Dairies Ihc., and the U.S. Dairy
Export Council.
Schriver is also vice chairman
and executive committe member
on the board of directors for the
National Council of Farmer
Cooperatives, past president of the
Ohio Council of Cooperatives, and
past chairman for the American
Institute of Cooperation.
According to the program, “As a
cooperative industry leader, Don is
a strong advocate and supporter of
cooperative education and leader
ship development programs."
The awared was presented by
David Blandford, Penn State Uni
versity professor and head of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Rural Sociology.
N. Alan Bair, director of the
Cooperative Business Education
Program, presented the Coopera
tive Education Award to Gerald
Phillips, of Quartyvillc, a senior
loan officer with Keystone Farm
Credit
A 1972 graduate of Delaware
Valley College, he received a
bachelor’s degree in dairy husban
dry and teaching certification in
Holstein Association
Releases Genetic Evaluations
The Red Book Plus/MultiMate
- Sire Supplement File, the com
plete sire hie for Red Book Plus
(Windows computer program)
with all ACTIVE, LIMITED,
FOREIGN, and most frequently
used sires that recently went
INACTIVE will be available
Nov. 13. This file requires a Red
Book Plus subscription, and is
available for $35 on diskette or
$2O downloaded FTP off the
website.
Internet products, including
Internet pedigrees, Fact Sheets
and Young Stock and Cow Quest
Searches will be available short
ly after the genetic update is
complete. The anticipated date
for these items is Nov. 13.
Individual printed pedigrees
vocational agriculture from Penn
State.
He spent his career in agricultur
ally related fields. He taught voca
tional agriculture at Pequua Valley
and Lampeter- S trasburg school
districts; was involved in feed an
crop sales with Agway; managed a
Purina feed dealership; and has
mote than IS years in agricultural
lending with Farm Credit.
He is involved with the Lancas
ter County Agricultural Coopera
tive Council, the Southeast Reg
ional Board of the Pennsylvania
Cooperative Council, and several
other committees.
Though not present, receiving
the PCC Horizon Award was Andy
Rill of Duncannon, who wdrics as a
systems manager for Digital
Dining products with Phillips
Office Products.
He was recognized for his long
term and continued involvement
and support with the leadership
training offered through the PCC.
He was a scholar at the PCC Sum
mer Institute, its leadership deve
lopment program, years ago. He
returned consistently to help with
the program.
He currently provides leader
ship for the Institute scholar staff, a
group of returning scholars who
have attended the National Insti
tute cm Cooperative Education
(NICE).
Rill and his wife also have
served as chaperones for Pennsyl
vania sholars attending NICE.
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Official Tbp 100 TPI Sire List,
and bull profiles (Part 1 format)
for sires that are new, bulls with
previous REL 70 percent that
increased by 5 percent, bulls
with previous REL less than 70
percent that are now greater
than 75 percent REL, as well as
data on all active bulls with
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